Parsing rules

[Emmanuel. M. Decarie]

>  >quotes, and less-than signs inside a stretch of JavaScript need to be
>>ignored. It's easier if you introduce the JavaScript during macro

I posted the following on the Frontier-Server list (under "Feature 
Request [was html.processMacros odd behavior]")

Maybe this could be a solution to some of the problems for the people 
that use the macro processor in different ways than the "standard" 
way.


À (At) 10:56 -0500 09/11/01, Emmanuel. M. Decarie écrivait (wrote) :
>*** Ok, here's a feature request. ***
>
>Imagine if  html.processMacros could  have a new argument,  the
>address of a table that contains tags for which the content will be
>not evaluated by the macro processor.
>
>For example:
>
>html.processMacros (s, plainprocessing=false, adrPageTable=nil,
>adrEscapeTagTable=nil)
>
>The adrEscapeTagTable could be like this:
>
>Name		Value		Kind
>----------------------------------------------
><!--		-->		string[3]
><%		%>		string[2]
>
>So when html.processMacros is going to parse a string and see '<!--'
>it doesn't evaluate anything until it sees '-->'.
>
>This table could also be in the #prefs of a website.
>
>Maybe there is others solutions for this problem, especially
>regarding the new features of html.processMacros.
><http://frontier.userland.com/changes/kernel71>
>
>What the people on this list and UserLand folks think about this?
>Does it look like a hard thing to implement.
>
>If I could have this feature, I could easily:
>
>- use Javascript and html.processMacros
>- embed Perl code for static Manila site served by Apache/Mason
>
>I think this could open Manila to very interesting applications.

Cheers
-Emmanuel
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